The people you can meet at the pub

Mav

Taking a break from cycling, we stopped at The Ear Inn in NYC - turned out we met some pretty interesting people who didn't mind having their picture taken :thumb All straight from the camera, no flash, no post processing. All C&C welcome :bow (But I am a n00b so go gentle ;-) )


Lyne Ramsay - director of Ratcatcher (if you don't know it, look it up on IMDB)


Her husband - a cool guy


Local character who was 'interesting'... and a cute dog


Micky, the Irish bartender playing up for the camera


Mavette with one of the bartenders son, in the phone booth which now holds the ATM





And a couple extra of Mavette :clap


There were pics from later in the evening - but as I got more drunk, the photos got progressively less sharp :scratch :rofl

Richard

Hi Mav,

I don´t see the pics. Check to see that external linking is enabled in your gallery.

Mav

Thanks Richard - shoud be working now

Quincy T

I really like the last two. Number 4 is good as well, although the framing is kind of strange. The other photos are either underexposed, overexposed, or in the case with the man and the dog, appear to be soft.

I should also say that, with what you had, not bad.

warpig602

This is a great idea. I have managed a bar for the last 5 years and have never thought about this. There are definitely some real characters that come in there.

Mav

Sword and Scales wrote:

I really like the last two. Number 4 is good as well, although the framing is kind of strange. The other photos are either underexposed, overexposed, or in the case with the man and the dog, appear to be soft.

I should also say that, with what you had, not bad.

Thanks for the feedback - glad you like the pics of Mavette

I have a couple questions - when you say the framing is strange in pic 4, what did you mean by that? Should I have put his face more to one side perhaps? And when you say: Not bad with what I had... are you referring to my kit? the lighting? the people?

warpig602 wrote:

This is a great idea. I have managed a bar for the last 5 years and have never thought about this. There are definitely some real characters that come in there.

Absolutely!! Looking forward to seeing the pics!

bdcolen

warpig602 wrote:

This is a great idea. I have managed a bar for the last 5 years and have never thought about this. There are definitely some real characters that come in there.

Actually, a woman named Sarah Stolfa, who tended bar at a dump in Philadelphia, did a book of portraits of her regulars, called, oddly enough, The Regulars. Jonathan Frazen wrote the intro. There are allot of the photos on her website.





Image (c) Sarah Stolfa